Security News > 2021 > May > Security teams plan a new pandemic quarantine for BYOD devices headed back to the office
Security professionals are bracing for the next phase of the remote work reality: personal devices coming back into the office and bringing along all the associated security risks.
Security teams are worried about the security status of laptops, smartphones and tablets employees will bring to the office after using them on a home network for months without proper supervision or control.
The report also found IT teams plan to use a combination of endpoint protection, mobile threat detection and endpoint detection and response tactics to address security risks from these devices.
The survey found that security professionals also want endpoint technologies to adapt security policy dynamically based on a user's location, the device being used and other factors.
More than half of respondents also said that adaptive security policies will help reduce the cost of issue remediation, and a majority of respondents from the financial services sector think this approach will help them use security staff more productively.
A substantial percentage of security professionals said that unified endpoint security is critical to the ability to detect and respond to threats on traditional endpoints and increasingly on mobile devices as well.